Draw & Preview: BUCS-UPC Nine-ball Pool Championships 2017-2018

The university pool season commences with the BUCS-UPC Nine-ball Pool Championships. Again in collaboration with the GB 9 Ball Tour (GB9), this year the tournament returns to the excellent Park Inn by Radisson, Telford over the weekend of 23-26 November 2017. This year’s event sees 178 players and 58 teams from 24 universities competing in one of the country’s largest 9-ball events; defending Team Champions Exeter will be returning, aiming to retain their silverware, however they will face stiff competition from a variety of angles. The individual championship will also have its “favourites”, but is wide open with last year’s winner, Tom Barrett (Nottingham) now graduated, and the excitement of the live random draw from the last-32 onwards.

The UPC is delighted that our partnership with the GB9 (Britain’s official professional 9 ball pool tour, regarded by many as “The toughest national tour on the planet!”) enables us to offer such fantastic playing conditions to the student population.

In line with our other events, the Event Preview now comes in the form of an interactive discussion on our social media sites – please join/follow our Facebook and Twitter sites join the debate about who may, or may not, be victorious this year!

Tournament documents are available for download at the following links:

We expect that selected matches will be streamed live on the internet (connection permitting). See our Facebook page for further information during the event. Recordings of all featured matches will be available for re-watch at a later date!

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BUCS-UPC Nine-ball Pool Team Championships 2017-18

The full Team Championship draw (including fixtures) is available for download at the following link:

Registration times for each match are given per section on the right of the above documents. This is the earliest a match may be called in that section. If you fail to register at this time you willbe scratched from the draw.

NOTES

Subsequent rounds (Last 32 onwards) will be drawn at random, in a live open draw with seeds who win their matches retaining their position in the draw.